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Weekend Green Thumb: Essential Allotment and Garden Tasks for December Saturdays
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Jan 1, 2025
🧤 Weekend Green Thumb: December Saturday Tasks on the Plot! Even in the chill of December, there’s still plenty to do! ❄️🌿 From mulching and tidying to prepping for spring sowing, here are the essential jobs I’m tackling this weekend to keep the allotment ticking over. What’s on your weekend garden to-do list? #WeekendGreenThumb #DecemberGardening #AllotmentTasks #GrowYourOwn #WinterOnThePlot #AllotmentLife #UKGardener
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode well I hope you've enjoyed the
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podcast this week we've had an episode
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every single day so if you're catching
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up make sure you go back and listen to
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all the episodes from this week there's
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certainly plenty on there nice and short
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as per usual they're usually about 10
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minutes long we don't let them drag on
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too much we try and not waffle on for
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ages but yeah we are back and it is the
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weekend and obviously over this weekend
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you will get podcasts talking about
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everything that we've been getting up to
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on the allotment fingers crossed we will
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be down there today and hopefully
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getting lots of work done because now
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it's time to move inside I've sorted
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most of my plot out on the outside
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everything that I needed to get done so
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it's time to move into the shed and I've
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been looking forward to this bit because
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this is a bit that I enjoy I enjoy doing
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all the building all the maintenance
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work and yeah we're going to give our
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shed a massive revamp on the inside of
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it which I've got a good Vision in my
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head whether it'll come out like Vision
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that is the question but you'll have to
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stay and see how well we get on with it
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we're going to build like a proper
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counter to do all my potting on and
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plant up all my plants up on and yeah
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I'm going to use this counter to do all
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my filming at as well because then you
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can see all my videos I can do videos of
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my S my seeds doing all my potting up
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and doing like examples and sharing
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ideas from it so yeah this counter I've
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got an idea for it whether it'll look
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like I actually want it to look like I
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want it all to be nicely wooden paneled
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and I want it all to be painted a nice
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color and then I'm thinking of having a
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backdrop behind me and having my logo on
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this counter as well to make it look
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quite professional but the question is
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if it actually comes out like this we
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will
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see but yeah we will see how well it
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actually comes on and looks looks like
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so hopefully we'll have a
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good a good outcome we've got plenty of
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wood saved up uh my shed's full of wood
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so I need to start using some of it up
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so that it don't all go rotten and yeah
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hopefully it's going to look good but
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we'll share progress photos as we're
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going along and I I plan on repainting
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on all the inside of my shed I'm going
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to clear loads of rubbish away from
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inside of it uh put some shelving up uh
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sort all my plant pots out sort all my
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seed trays out and basically give it a
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nice freshen up and just so that it's
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more aesthetic when I'm doing all my
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filming because I want to start looking
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a bit more
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professional I'll never be professional
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I'm a yorkman but yeah hopefully fingers
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crossed it will start to come together
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so at this moment in time I've just put
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my drills on charge so hopefully they
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will be charged for tomorrow so that we
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can start building
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it obviously this week we've got
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Saturday and Sunday down there then it's
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Christmas Day on Wednesday and yeah
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hopefully I'll be back down at the
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allotment onboxing day as I have nothing
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planned to do I've got a boring life and
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yeah hopefully I'll be back down on
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boxing day as well because I might
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actually sew all my onion seeds because
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that's an old Gardener tradition to
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plant the onions on boxing day so I'm
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going to plant my onion seeds on box in
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there I think I'm going to stick by
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Tradition now the the only other thing
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that I Do by tradition is my potato
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planting as well because they sayfe to
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plant them on Good Friday it's all to do
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with the moon so I've always stuck to
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grow it planted them on Good Friday even
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though Good Friday moves every single
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year I've always stuck to that date of
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planting them and they always come out
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good so we may try the tradition of PL
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in my onion seeds on boxing day get in
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touch and let me know if you plant your
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onion seeds on boxing day uh obviously
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you don't need to actually sew them till
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like January time but if you want in big
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ones or exhibition sized ones start them
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off around now as that is what people do
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obviously I'll be sewing them indoors
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inside my shed uh I'll not be planting
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them outside till March time so
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hopefully by they'll have shot up and be
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growing pretty strongly and I'm going to
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do a comparison video again this year
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I'm going to show what the difference is
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between planting from a seed and
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actually sewing onions from sets as well
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so you'll be able to stay up to date see
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the progress of how they're both getting
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on we'll plant them both near each other
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so the soil will be pretty similar uh
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they be the same amount of sunlight and
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we'll see how well they both actually
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grow and see which one
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actually does best whether it's worth
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growing them from seed or whether it's
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worth growing them from the set which is
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like a little bulb so let me know which
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one you think will grow better as I have
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done this before and I know which ones
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actually did the best so let me know
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which one you think will grow the best
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let me know if you grow seed or if you
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grow set as well I'd like to know what
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people actually
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do so hopefully we need to do that so I
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best get some compost actually this week
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weekend before the shut over Christmas
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so I'll put that on my list I need to
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get some compost in the morning on the
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way to the alotment so yeah I'm looking
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forward to that you never know I might
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be actually filming it on my new um
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table that's if it's not collapsed
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already cuz KN in my look it'll collapse
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the day that I build
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it but no I'm going to try and make it
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as strong as possible I about e even
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actually lay on it to make so sure it's
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strong and stable enough um see if it
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survive my weight which is a lot of
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weight but yeah that's our plan for this
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weekend start building inside my shed
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I've not got too much else to be getting
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on with down at the alotment I've still
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got to Winter wash all my fruit trees
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and that's a case of if you look at
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Amazon and look for winter wash um
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they're basically what you spray on your
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fruit trees to stop the winter moth from
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hibernating on them over the winter and
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laying its eggs and then they would
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hatch and then they'll obviously go
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inside your fruit and eat your fruit and
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stuff like that so it's case of
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protecting them a bit from pests and
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stuff like that and I also need to buy
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some green sticky tape to stick around
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them as well because that stops
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everything actually crawling up them and
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getting to the fruit as well so the more
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things that I can do to prevent them
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from getting damaged the best because
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the bug what damages my apples the most
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you it's not wasps it's not Birds it's
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not squirrels it's wood lice yes wood
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lice when I were picking all my apples
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last year and the years before that I
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look inside the core and there's a wood
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lice um inside the little hole where the
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stalk goes hiding away keeping warm out
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of the way and yeah they've obviously
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eaten a bit of the top of it as well so
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I need to start protecting them more
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from the wood lice as well let me know
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if you get issues with woodlice eating
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yours and if you're managing to prevent
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the woodlice from eating them let let me
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know how you do it because obviously I
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don't like spraying my fruit and stuff
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like that I'll use this winter wash
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which is like organic type but I don't
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like spraying the fruit once they on
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with pesticides or anything like that so
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yeah I like to be as organic as much as
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possible on my fruit and veg side it's
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what makes it taste better as well so
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let me know your thoughts on that so get
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in touch as well to let me know what
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you're getting up to at the allotment
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this weekend if you're going down if you
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har in your Christmas dinners as well
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that's the main part who's grown brussel
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sprouts not me I absolutely hate
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them who's growing them and yeah who's
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growing parsnips who's growing your
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potatoes have you got a full Christmas
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dinner from your alotment now that will
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be the perfect Christmas dinner all your
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vegetables all from your lotman and yeah
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a nice scrumptious Christmas dinner but
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I will keep these podcasts going all
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week you will leave even get one on
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Christmas day as well so make sure you
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stay tuned for the podcasts on Christmas
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Day and yeah I'm glad you all enjoyed
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everyone when we come back tomorrow when
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we find out what we being up to the
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alotment today that's if we' managed to
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do anything hopefully we will have done
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